Immigration Blog

When President Trump spoke to the nation on Saturday, January 19, offering a deal to Democrats in an attempt to end the border wall funding impasse, he laid out several items on his list of demands and proffers:

Although overshadowed by the Trump-Pelosi struggle in Washington, the multiple tunnel operations carried out near San Luis, Ariz., last week, showed that there is real talent on the other side of the border.

We don't need to rely on trace evidence to know that thousands of "special interest aliens", from countries where terror groups are rampant, sneak across the U.S. border each year.

The administration has terminated the participation of the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, and the Philippines in our unskilled foreign-worker programs because too many visa holders from those nations have turned themselves into illegal aliens.

The suggestions by number-two House Democrat Steny Hoyer sound superficially attractive, as befits platitudes and bloviation when emanating from a seasoned pol. But are they reasonable? I think not.

After his address Saturday offering a compromise to end the partial government shutdown, the best thing the president could have done was stand pat, say nothing, and allow the details of the proposal speak for themselves. But that often isn't the president's way.

This time, a non-Gulen Turkish school in the U.S. is having problems with accreditation.

I am convinced that the government shutdown will end when I run out of "wall" arguments to refute. Regrettably, that day never comes.

A new report shows that while employers and their lobbyists talk about the H-1B program as being designed to bring America the "best and the brightest" of the foreign workers, they actually pay the vast majority of these workers at substandard wages.